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No. 343,592. Patented June 15, 1886.

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W|TN555E5 Y INVENTUR N. PETERS. Pwln-Lhogrnpher. Wnhingkm, D.C.

"UNITED STATES PATENT s OFFICE.

FEATHER POMPON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,5`i92, dated Junel5, 1886.

Application tiled March 3, 1886. Serial No. 193,878. (No model.) 1 l T0all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER A. MERIAN, of the city of Brooklyn, county ofKings, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved FeatherPompon. ot' which the foli proVement hereinafter more fully pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a bottom View of a piece offabric from which the pompon is made. Figs. Zand 3show successive stagesin the manufacture, and Fig. 4 is a side view of the completed pompon.

The lettera represents a piece of woven fabric, to one side of whichsplit feather cuts or tips b are attachedl by sewing, so as toV coversuch side and project beyond two or four ot' the edges. Preferably thetips are placed with their split quills parallel upon the fabric, andthe vanes are made to fall over the edges, as shown in Fig. l. Ahem isnow made around the edge of the fabric a by lapping such fabric over toa slight extent, Fig. 2, and into the hem a single or double wire, c, isplaced,

which projects with its free ends out of the hem. The edge of the hem isof course attached by sewing.

d is a second wire, drawn through the fabric a opposite the free ends ofwire c. After the stem cof an egret,f, has been thrust centrally throughthe fabric, a ball is formed out of the article bydrawing it together,as shown in Fig. 3. The drawing together is accoml plislied by pushingthe hem of' fabric a back upon the Wire c until such hem forms a smallcircle. To finish the pompon. the exposed ends of wire c are woundtogether with wire d and stem e, and thus a stem is made for thecompleted pompon. This Stein may, if desired, be covered by a coiledstrip of paper, g.

A pompon produced as above described is of ornamental appearance, may bequickly made, and permits the utilization of short tips and cuts.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination of fabric a, carryingprojecting tips b, and having asurrounding hem, with wire c placedwithin and projecting out ollthe hem, and with the Wire ddrawn throughfabric te and intertwisted With Wire c, substantially as specified.

2. The combination offabric c, carrying the projecting split tips b andhaving asurrounding hem, with the wires c d and the egret e f,substantially as herein shown and described.

PETER A. MERIAN.

Vitnesses:

HENRY E. ROEDER, A. R. MOHDT.

